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Access Scientific Gets FDA Clearance for 4Fr Nanopuncture POWERWAND

Access Scientific, Inc. announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the 4Fr Nanopuncture™ POWERWAND®. The unique peripheral IV catheter (technically a midline at 3.1 inc...

POWERWAND Catheter Associated with Superior Clinical Results, in Presentations at INS

Fewer Complications and Better Rates of Completed Therapy Reported with Advanced Extended-Dwell Midline Catheter The POWERWAND advanced extended-dwell midline catheter offers...

Extended-Dwell Midline Catheter to Be Highlighted in AVA Presentations

Use of an extended-dwell peripheral IV catheter to reduce costs and increase patient safety and comfort will be the subject of several poster and oral presentations at the upcomin...

Access Scientific, Inc. is Acquired by Endeavour Capital

Access Scientific, Inc. (ASI), a leading provider of over-wire vascular access technology, announced today that they have completed an acquisition agreement with Endeavour Capital...

More pediatric clinical trials needed

A new analysis has found that adult trials outnumber trials for children by 11 to 1.

Oncology Spotlight: Using Companion Diagnostics to Drive Patient Recruitment

Many companies have launched successful exploratory and investigative clinical trials targeting oncology.  Clinicaltrials.gov lists 24,710 active cancer trials during the past 10 years.  Specificall...

Clinical Trials Awareness

This article explain to African American audiences that clinical trials are a critical tool that researchers use to test whether new methods are better and safer than existing methods. Without clinica...

[Comment] Regulating clinical trials in Europe

Many medical researchers seem to agree that the European legislation on clinical trials needs to change. Between 2007 and 2011, the number of clinical trials started in Europe fell by 25%. Much critic...

Planning and analysis of cross-over trials in infertility.

The use of cross-over trials in investigating treatments for infertility is discussed. A simple possible approach to analyzing such trials using the Mantel-Haenszel procedure is explained. A more flex...

Setting up a Respiratory Trials Unit.

Clinical trials are an essential in advancing our knowledge and treatment of patients with respiratory disease. Conducting well designed clinical studies which accurately and reliably answer important...

NHLBI clinical trials workshop: an executive summary.

On September 13-14, 2010, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) organized a workshop: 'Clinical Trials: Past, Present and Future'. The workshop covered many areas in clinical trials, in...

Managing clinical trials.

ABSTRACT: Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Trials fail because tried and tested systems handed down through apprenticeships have not been...

Clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis: a status report from the ClinicalTrials.gov website.

The aims of this study are to describe the characteristics of clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) listed in ClinicalTrials.gov and examine existing trends in study design, funding sources, ou...